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From the Ted Talk by Alessandro Acquisti: What will a future without secrets look like?

Unscramble the Blue Letters

How long a delay do you think we had to add in order to nullify the inhibitory effcet of knowing that faculty would see your answers? Ten minutes? Five minutes? One mntuie? How about 15 seconds? Fifteen seconds were sufficient to have the two groups dsloicse the same amount of information, as if the second group now no longer cares for faculty reading their answers.

Now I have to admit that this talk so far may sunod exceedingly gloomy, but that is not my point. In fact, I want to share with you the fact that there are alternatives. The way we are doing things now is not the only way they can done, and certainly not the best way they can be done. When someone tells you, "People don't care about privacy," consider whether the game has been dsenegid and rigged so that they cannot care about privacy, and coming to the realization that these manipulations occur is already hawalfy through the porescs of being able to protect yourself. When someone tlels you that privacy is incompatible with the benefits of big data, consider that in the last 20 years, researchers have cearetd toihcolgeens to allow virtually any electronic transactions to take pcale in a more privacy-preserving manner. We can browse the Internet aonulsmoyny. We can send elmias that can only be read by the intended recipient, not even the NSA. We can have even privacy-preserving data mining. In other words, we can have the benefits of big data while protecting privacy. Of course, these technologies ilpmy a shifting of cost and revenues between data holders and data subjects, which is why, perhaps, you don't hear more about them.

Open Cloze

How long a delay do you think we had to add in order to nullify the inhibitory ______ of knowing that faculty would see your answers? Ten minutes? Five minutes? One ______? How about 15 seconds? Fifteen seconds were sufficient to have the two groups ________ the same amount of information, as if the second group now no longer cares for faculty reading their answers.

Now I have to admit that this talk so far may _____ exceedingly gloomy, but that is not my point. In fact, I want to share with you the fact that there are alternatives. The way we are doing things now is not the only way they can done, and certainly not the best way they can be done. When someone tells you, "People don't care about privacy," consider whether the game has been ________ and rigged so that they cannot care about privacy, and coming to the realization that these manipulations occur is already _______ through the _______ of being able to protect yourself. When someone _____ you that privacy is incompatible with the benefits of big data, consider that in the last 20 years, researchers have _______ ____________ to allow virtually any electronic transactions to take _____ in a more privacy-preserving manner. We can browse the Internet ___________. We can send ______ that can only be read by the intended recipient, not even the NSA. We can have even privacy-preserving data mining. In other words, we can have the benefits of big data while protecting privacy. Of course, these technologies _____ a shifting of cost and revenues between data holders and data subjects, which is why, perhaps, you don't hear more about them.

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Original Text

How long a delay do you think we had to add in order to nullify the inhibitory effect of knowing that faculty would see your answers? Ten minutes? Five minutes? One minute? How about 15 seconds? Fifteen seconds were sufficient to have the two groups disclose the same amount of information, as if the second group now no longer cares for faculty reading their answers.

Now I have to admit that this talk so far may sound exceedingly gloomy, but that is not my point. In fact, I want to share with you the fact that there are alternatives. The way we are doing things now is not the only way they can done, and certainly not the best way they can be done. When someone tells you, "People don't care about privacy," consider whether the game has been designed and rigged so that they cannot care about privacy, and coming to the realization that these manipulations occur is already halfway through the process of being able to protect yourself. When someone tells you that privacy is incompatible with the benefits of big data, consider that in the last 20 years, researchers have created technologies to allow virtually any electronic transactions to take place in a more privacy-preserving manner. We can browse the Internet anonymously. We can send emails that can only be read by the intended recipient, not even the NSA. We can have even privacy-preserving data mining. In other words, we can have the benefits of big data while protecting privacy. Of course, these technologies imply a shifting of cost and revenues between data holders and data subjects, which is why, perhaps, you don't hear more about them.

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